A girl lies sleeping in the bed as the evening moves towards midnight. From the shadows in the corner, whispers can be heard, a deep male voice that seems to rumble through the room and a higher voice that seems to whisper and curl around the other.
“Do you think she will ever see me?” Rumbles the first voice.
“She is one of the special ones that can; she is really kind and sweet.” Whispers the second voice.
“What if she doesn’t?”
“It won’t matter, I can see you and I believe in you.”
“But, what if that doesn’t matter, what if SHE has to believe in me.”
“I know she will. You are too special to cease to exist and I believe and I am a part of her soul.”
As the moon shifts in the night sky, a moonbeam highlights the corner of the room. Two figures can be seen curled together so that they blend. One is a red dragon that scales glimmer in the moonlight and the other is a cream colored kitten with a star in the middle of her forehead.
The girl mumbles in her sleep and turns over and curls into a little ball. She is a timeless beauty with blonde hair, pale skin and a small bone structure.
Kitten uncurls from around Dragon and lightly jumps onto the bed to place her paw on the girl’s hand. “Come on, join her in her dreams.”
The Dragon stretches and flexes his wings and lightly flies into the air and toward the girl dreaming on the bed. As he curls around kitten and wraps her in his wings, he places one wing lightly on the girl’s hands.
Kitten purrs and whispers into the night, “Etoile meet Dragon…”
In Etoile’s dreams she is standing in a meadow surrounded by trees that seem to reach into the eternity of the night sky. In the distance she can hear something moving through the sky toward her. There is no fear just a happiness and joy of something special, a gift, that she is about to receive. The stars fill the night sky as Dragon lands lightly before her and on his back is her Kitten, Star.
“Kitten who’s your friend?”
“This is Dragon, can he come live with us?”
Dragon, chuckles and ducks his head in shyness. “shhh, Kitten. She needs to know me, you can’t just ask her.”
Kitten gets all ruffled and nips Dragon’s ear, “why not? She doesn’t know what you want unless you ask her. Please? He’s my friend and he will make a really good friend to you too.”
Etoile giggles at the two of them. There is something about them that makes her smile and the world seems a bit brighter with both of them standing before her. “Hi, Dragon it is a pleasure to meet you and I don’t see why you can’t stay with us. Will your human miss you?”
“He says I can stay with you and I already asked him and he says kitten can stay with him. Kitten likes him.”
Etoile looks up at Kitten, “ummm, you are going to leave me?”
Kitten scrambles down off Dragon’s back and climbs up Etoiles leg to curl around her neck. “No, not leave you; I’m a part of you. Just his human needs a kitten in his life and you need a dragon because you are stuffy and dragons bring laughter. We will still be a part of each other’s souls and go adventuring together, honestly.”
The girl reaches up and scratches Kitten behind her ear and steps towards Dragon and puts her arm around his neck and hugs him. “Why do I have a strange feeling that life is going to be very interesting with the two of you in my life?”
As Dragon chuckled kitten scrambled up to his neck, “want to go flying?”
“Can I really?”
“Of course! Let’s go fly through the stars!” As Etoile climbed onto Dragon’s back and they took off into the sky, bunny rabbits snuck out of the trees and cheered as they tumbled into the meadow.
As Dragon, Kitten and Etoile flew through the night sky and started the first of many adventures Etoile turned over with a smile on her face back in the bedroom and curled around the Dragon and Kitten lying there.
The next morning, as the sun rose in the sky Etoile yawned and felt warm and happy. As she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the red dragon curled up on her bed. She reached over and petted him and whispered into the morning’s dawn, “welcome Dragon.”
